Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.

This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way then he does." He thought. "Yes -- really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.

If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a very few people, but a few novelists are among them - are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest in against such a search: organized religion, the state, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown